EVAN HAYDEN // various manga design work

DESIGN FOR VARIOUS MANGA SERIES

O MAIDENS ✦ GOLOSSEUM ✦ AKIRA ✦ ETC...

O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON
2019-2020 ✦ CG, publisher-provided artwork

I had a lot of fun working on Nao Emoto's series Forget Me Not, so I jumped at the chance to letter her next series. O Maidens in Your Savage Season is a charming and funny coming-of-age story about five high school girls, written by anime great Mari Okada. There were some fun opportunities to design things, mostly in the translation notes page, where I opted to echo the volume's story, but in minimalist form, using just four carefully chosen panels. This section is about design, but if you want to see a bunch of samples of my lettering for the series, it's in the Comics gallery.

PUBLISHER: Kodansha
O Maidens in Your Savage Season © Mari Okada & Nao Emoto

O Maidens in Your Savage Season - translation notes design

GOLOSSEUM
2018 ✦ CG, publisher-provided artwork

Here is some of the design work I did for the over-the-top crazy martial arts action manga Golosseum. Specifically, translation notes pages, a two-page bonus spread of the three main women characters, and some of the bonus info from the backs of the volumes. Also, check out the lettering I did for the series, in the Comics gallery.

PUBLISHER: Kodansha

Golosseum © Yasushi Baba

Golosseum - translation notes & other design

AKIRA
2016-2017 ✦ CG, publisher-provided artwork

I've loved Akira since I was 13, and was honored to be able to work on the 35th anniversary box set. In addition to the full lettering of half of the series, and partial lettering of the other half (you can see my Akira lettering in the Comics section), I also handled interior design work. I was able to get most creative with the sound effects glossaries, and had a fun time choosing impactful panel art to serve as borders on the tops and bottoms of those pages. I also handled things like the "Story of Akira" summary sections, which I matched as closely to the Japanese editions as possible.

PUBLISHER: Kodansha

Akira © Katsuhiro Otomo

ETC...

Here's a collection of various little bits of design work from various manga titles. Grouping them together like this doesn't mean they are unimportant to me, but just that I didn't have as much to do design-wise on them, or that they are earlier examples of my work. Included are Kazuhiro Fujita's The Ghost and the Lady, Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, Koutarou Sekine's Ninja Slayer Kills,

THE GHOST AND THE LADY ✦ Get it here!

CAT DIARY: YON & MU ✦ Get it here!

NINJA SLAYER KILLS ✦ Get it here!

LIVINGSTONE ✦ Get it here!

COMPLEX AGE ✦ Get it here!